Minecraft Pixel Art Generator: turn an image into blocks

A live preview, a materials list with stacks and Shulker boxes, a numbered building plan, and ready-to-use /fill and /setblock commands, also as a .mcfunction file. For example, a 8 × 8-pixel Creeper face as wall art without dithering uses 64 blocks (34 × Lime Wool, 20 × Black Concrete, 10 × Green Wool). That is 3 stacks, which fit in 1 Shulker box, built with 31 commands such as /fill ~ ~7 ~ ~1 ~7 ~ minecraft:lime_wool.

Upload a PNG, JPG, WebP or GIF above, then choose the width in blocks (1 to 256), your Minecraft version, a block palette and a wall or floor orientation. The preview, material list, numbered blueprint and commands update instantly. Then build by hand using the blueprint or let the data pack do the building.

The Minecraft Pixel Art Generator is free to use without signing up. Conversion, preview and export all run in your browser: your image never leaves your device or gets stored anywhere.

Concrete has very uniform, vibrant colors and looks the cleanest. Wool is similarly colorful, while terracotta offers earthy, muted tones. The “All Color Blocks” palette combines all three and usually matches your image's colors most closely. For Survival worlds without rare materials, use the Survival palette; you can select or deselect individual blocks at any time.

The materials list shows the count for each block, broken down into stacks of 64, plus the total and the number of Shulker boxes needed (27 slots each). The grid ranges from 1 to 256 blocks per side: 64 × 64 is 4,096 blocks, while 128 × 128 is already 16,384.

Without dithering, each pixel simply gets the closest matching block. With Floyd–Steinberg dithering, the tool mixes neighboring blocks to make gradients and midtones look smoother—ideal for photos. For logos, sprites, and original pixel art, it's better to turn it off to keep areas a solid color.

To build by hand, follow the numbered blueprint, which you can also download as a PNG. For a faster option, open the “Commands” tab: download the data pack (.zip), put it in your world's datapacks folder, run /reload, stand at the starting corner and run the function with /function. If there are only a few commands, you can copy and run them one at a time; pasting them all into chat at once won't work because of the 256-character limit. You'll need operator permissions or cheats enabled.

The version selection applies to Java Edition, and block names use modern IDs such as minecraft:white_wool. The data pack works with Java 1.20.2 and newer versions. We haven't tested the commands for Bedrock Edition; there, you can use the blueprint to build by hand.

No, schematic export isn't available. The generator provides the preview and blueprint as PNG files, the material list and blueprint as copyable text, /fill and /setblock commands, a .mcfunction file and a data pack. You can use these to build in vanilla Minecraft without mods.